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Author:

Doman, Christine Elizabeth

Title:

STABLE ISOTOPE AND LIPID SIGNATURES OF PLANTS ACROSS A CLIMATE GRADIENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOMARKER-BASED PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Isotpe fractionation
n-alkanes
C4
Kohala
Kikuyu grass

File:

Download Doman_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Katherine Haines Freeman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Fegyveresi, John Michael

Title:

Physical Properites of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Deep Core: Development, Evolution, and Interpretation

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Glaciology
WAIS Divide
Antarctica
Ice Core
Paleoclimatology
Ice Deformation
Ice Sheet
Total Air
Bubble Number-Density

File:

Download Fegyveresi_PhD_1_5_15_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard B Alley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Todd Anthony Sowers, Committee Member
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member
Joan J Fitzpatrick, Special Member

Author:

Mccauley Rench, Rebecca Louise

Title:

Metabolic Potential and Diversity of the Microbial Communities in a Sulfidic Cave System

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Frasassi cave system
Astrobiology
Geomicrobiology
Beggiatoa
rope-like biofilms

File:

Download McCauleyRenchDissertation_final_v1.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Macalady, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Kump, Committee Member

Author:

Pickard, Megan

Title:

Geochemistry of mafic Anatolian lavas: Geochemical insight on ancient continental assembly and break-up

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

basalt petrogenesis
Anatolian geodynamics
trace element geochemistry
radiogenic isotope geochemistry

File:

Download Pickard_Megan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tanya Furman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tanya Furman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Jiuyuan

Title:

The origin of a basin-scale thin limestone: the Middle Devonian Cherry Valley Member, Marcellus Formation

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Depositional environment
Redox condition
Marcellus shale

File:

Download Wang_Jiuyuan_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Allan Arthur, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chung, Angela Hsien

Title:

Evaluation of Variability in Soil Organic Carbon Isotope Record and Implications for Organic Matter Preservation

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Organic carbon
isotopes
residence time
PETM

File:

Download Chung_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Katherine Haines Freeman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Peterson, Kristina Marie

Title:

nucleation, growth, and phase transformation mechanisms of the iron (oxy)hydroxides

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

akaganeite
hematite
Rietveld
synchrotron
time-resolved X-ray diffraction

File:

Download Peterson_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Heaney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Heaney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
Christopher Gorski, Committee Member
Matthew Scott Fantle, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Special Member

Author:

Meghani, Nooreen Amina

Title:

Uplift and shortening in the Nepalese and Indian Sub-himalaya determined with quantitative geomorphology

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geomorphology
stream channel incision
Sub-Himalaya
Main Frontal Thrust Fault
Siwalik Hills

File:

Download Meghani_thesis_compiled_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Kirby, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wendt, Anna Katherine

Title:

Geochemistry of the Union Springs Member, Marcellus Formation in Central Pennsylvania and Environmental Implications of hydraulic fracturing

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Marcellus Formation
geochemistry
uranium
hydraulic fracturing

File:

Download Wendt_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Allan Arthur, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rudy Slingerland, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Gary Lee Catchen, Committee Member

Author:

Wysocki, Nathaniel P

Title:

Fine Sediment Deposition and Storage in Sandy-Fluvial Systems

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

fluvial sedimentology
fine sediment
sandy fluvial systems
sedimentology
surface processes
fluvial

File:

Download Wysocki_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Miller, Peter Kent

Title:

Experimental investigation of permeability and mechanical evolution of cataclastic deformation bands

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Rock mechanics
deformation bands
sandstone
permeability
reservoir mechanics

File:

Download Miller_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bosch, Rachel Frances

Title:

Lithofacies and Transport of Clastic Sediments in Kartsic Aquifers

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

karst
cave
sediment
clastic sediment transport
channel facies
slackwater facies
backswamp facies
thalweg
diamicton

File:

Download R_Bosch_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Blaine White, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Swanson, Courtney E

Title:

Sequence Stratigraphy and Depostional Environments of the Burkett Mbr., Harrell Fm. and Associated Strata in the Northern Appalachian Basin

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Burkett
stratigraphy
sequence
Tully
Appalachian
black shale
shale

File:

Download Swanson_Thesis_Final_rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Rudy Slingerland, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vanderleest, Rebecca Anne

Title:

Investigation of fold growth in North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

terraces
fold
trishear

File:

Download VanderLeest_R_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Myron Fisher, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Allan Arthur, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Gregory James

Title:

Taxonomic and ecologic implications of mammoth molar morphology as measured via computed tomography (CT)

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Mammoth
taxonomy
ecology
teeth
molar
morphology
computed tomography
CT
paleontology
geology
quaternary
pleistocene

File:

Download Thesis_Final_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell W Graham, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric S Post, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
MARK E PATZKOWSKY, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Michael Ryan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

White-Gaynor, Austin Laurent

Title:

Seismic Anisotropy across the Appalachian Mountains and Plateau

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Seismic Anisotropy
Shear-wave splitting
Appalachian Orogen

File:

Download White-Gaynor_MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lin, Xiayang

Title:

Causes of iridescence in natural gem materials

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

iridescence
quartz
hematite
gemstone
diffraction grating

File:

Download Lin_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Heaney, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rybacki, Kyle S

Title:

Deciphering the early oxidation of Earth's surface: evidence from Fennoscandia, arctic Russia

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Precambrian oxygen
paleosol
iron isotopes
chromium isotopes
Great Oxidation Event (GOE)
oxidation
U-Th-Pb geochronology

File:

Download Rybacki_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hiroshi Ohmoto, Committee Member
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Committee Member

Author:

Baisden, Tramond Rashard

Title:

Evaluating avulsion controls on fluvial sand body architecture and connectivity

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geology
fluvial
connectivity
petroleum geology
sedimentary geology
reservoir modelling
wasatch
lidar
avulsion

File:

Download Baisden_Tramond_FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rudy Slingerland, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Milideo, Lauren Elizabeth

Title:

Actualistic and statistical approaches to taphonomic interpretations in Quaternary environments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

vertebrate paleontology
taphonomy
paleoecology
late Pleistocene
late Holocene

File:

Download MILIDEO_dissertation_FINAL3.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell W Graham, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell W Graham, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
MARK E PATZKOWSKY, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Member